I just found this vid Yogurt vs gasoline (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwT2k9tE_SE#normal)
... but the same S4 made an appearance in an episde of their show (HBO - The Neistat Brothers) last night. If you haven't seen their show, it is a lot like their youtube stuff, except 22 minutes long and thematically connected. And if you haven't seen their youtube stuff, it is like the video above, except different :P
My bike runs very poorly on yogurt, must have some of that there ethanol hiding in it.
Probably be a much different story if lanesharing was allowed in NYC. Reminds me of a comedy sketch I saw where a moped was racing a motorcyclist.
Quote from: erkishhorde on August 27, 2010, 01:31:50 PM
Probably be a much different story if lanesharing was allowed in NYC.
even if it were technically allowed, the cabbies would fight for the space thereby slowing the Duc and the bicycle would still win.
Also, this race depends heavily on time of day.
i will always take the bicycle against a motorized form of transport in manhattan. unless it's like 3am on a weeknight.
and i would take the street route as well.
Quote from: lethe on August 27, 2010, 01:26:39 PM
My bike runs very poorly on yogurt, must have some of that there ethanol hiding in it.
If my bike ran on any breakfast food, it would, true to its country of origin, run on something like the rider's breakfast: cappuccino and cigarettes. The exhaust would smell like an Italian airport.
Sooo.. "one of the world's fastest production bikes". We're just letting that one go, then? ;D
Quote from: il d00d on August 28, 2010, 07:23:23 PM
Sooo.. "one of the world's fastest production bikes". We're just letting that one go, then? ;D
Well, if you take all of the bikes in production at the time it was made, it would be in the top half in terms of speed. ;D
Now, I want to see how many traffic control devices were ignored by the bicycle!
In every town I've called home, a bicycle would win such a race, since it seems bikes (although required to obey all traffic laws) are never punished for BREAKING THE LAW!!!!
If the guy on the S4 were to jump from street, to sidewalk, and back to street to avoid a traffic control device (traffic light) or walk/don't walk light at an intersection, he'd be strung up by his balls!!!
i dont know what idiot picked the route, but if the motorcycle went the same route the bike did, it would of lost for sure. u can go from 92nd st to 59th st in 2 minutes on a motorbike. and from 59th down to franklin in less than 10 minutes.
Quote from: krolik on August 28, 2010, 10:33:14 PM
Well, if you take all of the bikes in production at the time it was made, it would be in the top half in terms of speed. ;D
Well said.
mitt
Quote from: He Man on August 29, 2010, 12:35:22 AM
i dont know what idiot picked the route, but if the motorcycle went the same route the bike did, it would of lost for sure. u can go from 92nd st to 59th st in 2 minutes on a motorbike. and from 59th down to franklin in less than 10 minutes.
Of course it was gimicked. They purposefully made the bicycle win.
Quote from: Rev. Millertime on August 28, 2010, 10:44:24 PM
Now, I want to see how many traffic control devices were ignored by the bicycle!
In every town I've called home, a bicycle would win such a race, since it seems bikes (although required to obey all traffic laws) are never punished for BREAKING THE LAW!!!!
If the guy on the S4 were to jump from street, to sidewalk, and back to street to avoid a traffic control device (traffic light) or walk/don't walk light at an intersection, he'd be strung up by his balls!!!
that's ok. i have had cars throw things at me and i have been hit by cars and they just left.
and motorcyclists do jump curbs and such. it's just harder to maneuver one at speed through a crowded sidewalk.
i have also been chased down by the police and been told not to do whatever it was i jsut did.